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TSS Today's Clips-Thursday, July 19

Below are newspaper articles from around the Commonwealth that you may find of interest.These materials are to inform you of developments that may affect your business and are not to be considered legal advice. If you have any questions please contact Mike Woods.

Residents of Martinsville are slowly coming around to the idea that the best thing for the city might be for it to cease being a city at all. Off-and-on discussions have been ongoing for decades about whether the shrinking…

A coalition of religious and human rights groups called on the Virginia Board of Corrections to investigate the use of solitary confinement in jails, arguing the state needs facts rather than anecdotal evidence…

An explosion of a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia was triggered by the same conditions — steep slopes prone to landslides — that exist along the route of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a conservation group is warning…

People here blame tolls at the Downtown and Midtown tunnels for sapping traffic from the city’s sluggish tourism district. Studies, including one released publicly last month, have found some evidence of that…

A small school district in far southwestern Virginia is set to become the first in the commonwealth to arm teachers in classrooms — a decision that is prompting criticism from the state’s top law enforcement official…

Richmond School Board members wary of the energy City Hall is spending on a bid to remake a broad swath of downtown say they want Mayor Levar Stoney focused on a more pressing infrastructure issue: school facilities…

They learn so fast these days, don’t they? The big crop of Democratic freshman legislators elected to the House of Delegates last November seem a lot quicker on the political uptake than their predecessors…

The Fifth Circuit agreed Tuesday to pause a Federal Trade Commission administrative trial challenging a Louisiana real estate regulation that controls appraisal fees, giving the appraisers board a chance to vie for immunity as a state agency before it needs to face the antitrust action…

As one of his first major acts as acting director of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler signed and finalized new standards overseeing coal ash. Signed into rules on Wednesday, the new regulations put more authority back in the hands of industry and states to regulate their own waste…

Lawmakers are working on the biggest changes to U.S. retirement savings in more than a decade, exploring several proposals that could make it easier for small companies to offer 401(k) plans and for workers to guarantee themselves an annual income after they retire…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s leader on Wednesday placed blame on Big Pharma for the “anemic” biosimilars market and floated a four-part plan for strengthening sales of the copycat medicines…

The growing use of anti-anxiety pills reminds some doctors of the early days of the opioid crisis. But the number of people taking the sedatives and the average length of time they’re taking them have shot up since the 1990s…

Rare are the substantial impasses resolved through honest, well-intentioned negotiation. Rarer still are times when the end result promises a demonstrable benefit to the public’s access to information and better oversight of vital civic institutions. But…

Municipal debt allows cities and counties to invest in major capital improvement projects such as schools, streets, bridges, water treatment plants and other big-ticket projects and equipment. As few jurisdictions have enough money…